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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: inteligencia artificial

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Large language models (LLMs) have recently gained attention in automated writing evaluation (AWE) due to their flexibility, ease of use, and free accessibility. However, most existing studies have relied on standardized rubrics and detailed scoring guidelines to guide model outputs. Recent evidence suggests that LLMs can adapt their scoring behavior through example-based calibration. Building on this insight, the present study examines whether ChatGPT-4o can mirror individual instructors’ evaluative tendencies. Data consisted of 100 previously graded final exam writing samples from Saudi students of English as a second language (ESL), provided by five instructors at a Saudi university’s Bachelor of Arts program. GPT (generative pre-trained transformer) was calibrated using instructor-graded writing samples to enhance its alignment...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza en línea e híbrida

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Almost since the onset of emergency remote teaching due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020, studies examined how teachers and students adjusted to the change, including in language courses. Some of this research has explored language teachers’ self-efficacy and confidence in teaching remotely, and to a lesser extent how student language learning has been affected; most studies have not differentiated among languages taught or between different student age groups. Through a survey of 173 PK–16 language instructors in the United States who switched from face-to-face classroom teaching to remote teaching in the spring of...

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Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: norma y estandarización

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Engagée dans une politique dite panhispanique depuis le milieu des années 1990, la Real Academia Española (RAE) s’est lancée parallèlement dans l’élaboration de grands corpus numériques de référence (CREA, CORDE, CORPES XXI) et dans la publication d’ouvrages normatifs (Nueva Gramática de la Lengua española en 2009 ; Diccionario Panhispánico de Dudas en 2005), en collaboration avec les Académies de langue espagnole extra-européennes. Cet article analyse l’articulation entre ces deux programmes au regard du pluricentrisme revendiqué dans l’approche de la langue et dans l’édification de la norme. Y est examiné le rôle joué par les bases de données académiques dans le traitement normatif de trois questions marquées par la variation diatopique (dequeísmo, complémentation possessive des adverbes locatifs et usage du pretérito perfecto...

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Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: pedagogía crítica

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This article explores the current politics and practices of language teaching and learning at higher education in the US, and the ethical dilemmas that we face as instructors of Spanish as a Second Language (L2) with a focus on climate emergency. How can we teach and learn Spanish—a colonial language mostly in Latin America, but also in Africa, Asia, and even Oceania—in the context of climate and the environment without somehow perpetuating the ‘colonial normal’? How can we teach and learn Spanish in the context of climate and the environment without somehow propagating the colonial imperative? If we acknowledge that the climate crisis is the result of intersectional colonial and neocolonial processes at various levels, we need to decolonize our teaching dynamics. Thus, to tackle these questions, we propose radical curricular...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enfoque por tareas

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This study investigated the impact of task type and proficiency level on second language learners’ task engagement, combing the discourse analytic method with the idiodynamic method. Sixty undergraduate English-as-a-foreign-language learners in China were divided into high- and low-proficiency groups based on their scores on the Oxford Placement Test. The learners were randomly paired with a partner who shared the same proficiency level and completed a narrative task and a decision-making task. Their spoken discourse of task performance was analyzed to explore behavioral, cognitive, and social engagement. The results of the two tasks...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: inteligencia artificial

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Research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in language education becomes more popular. This revolutionary technology is regarded as a promising tool to assist language learning environments by empowering automatic feedback, intelligent tutoring, and personalization. While designing Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning (ICALL) environments, educators have followed the First Principles of Instruction (FPI), including problem-centered, activation, demonstration, application, and integration. These instructional design principles...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: pronunciación

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A growing body of research, especially on second language (L2) English, has shown the positive effects of explicit pronunciation teaching. However, some beliefs which prevent explicit pronunciation teaching still remain, notably, the belief that regular speaking during class time is enough to improve pronunciation outcomes. This article analyses the evolution of L2 Spanish vowels in four students at an Australian university. An analysis of 1,387 vowels from the first, third...

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Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario

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There is a great deal of variation in gains found between studies of second language (L2) incidental vocabulary learning, as well as many factors that affect learning. This meta-analysis investigated the effects of exposure to L2 meaning-focused input on incidental vocabulary learning with an aim to clarify the proportional gains that occur through meaning-focused learning. Twenty-four primary studies were retrieved providing 29 different effect sizes and a total sample size of 2,771 participants (1,517 in experimental groups vs. 1,254 in control groups). Results showed large overall effects...

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Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: gramática

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La consideración del tiempo como el significado básico y definitorio del verbo mantiene secularmente la descripción del uso del sistema verbal en los términos de reglas generales que es necesario matizar y contradecir constantemente con multitud de usos no temporales inexplicados y ofrecidos como “excepcionales”, “dislocados” e incluso “incorrectos”. Esta situación, claramente precientífica desde un punto de vista teórico, es especialmente lesiva en el campo de la enseñanza, donde el estudiante es enfrentado a una maraña de usos sin un sentido unitario que permita aplicar lógica a su comprensión y su uso. El presente artículo parte de la negación del tiempo como valor operativo del verbo en español (Ruiz 2014) para explorar las posibilidades e implicaciones didácticas de una definición espacial del mismo. Bajo esta concepción, el...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: inteligencia artificial

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This study explores how ChatGPT, used as a dialogic mediator, supports CEFR-based mediation and learner autonomy among multilingual university students at A1 to A2 proficiency levels in Spanish. A key finding is the contrast between learners’ observable autonomy during AI-mediated tasks and the deeper strategic awareness revealed in post-task reflections. Grounded in sociocultural theory and the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) Companion Volume (2020...

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